I’m Maryfran a downto earth open and honest writer who has had incredible success with weight loss (150 pounds) and also a regain. I’m currently working to lose my weight. I write a little about everything that pertains to weight loss: recipes, emotions, victories, exercise, failures and success. My blog title beliefinmyself is twofold. It is belief that I can lose and maintain the weight, but it also pertains to life. If I believe in myself I can achieve my every dream and hope!

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Stock-piling

Just a little food porn to start the day off right. This is Irish Potato casserole. It was so scrumptiously delicious!

So, I got to thinking last night. I was walking through the house and stopped to admire the storage of food.

It made me start to think. Why do I have a complex about having stored food. Now, of course the home canned foods are simply because we grow our own foods and thus I can a lot of food for the winter months. But my pantry is just jammed with purchased foods. I've never gone hungry in my life. There is no reason for me to have any fear of being hungry. Yet I stock pile food. I just really doesn't make sense!

I think our stockpile nature is also the same instinct that sends us to the grocery store for "essentials" when a storm is predicted. Aside from actually being completely OUT of toilet paper, there's probably nothing we really would HAVE to have if snowed in for a day or two.

My pantry looks ridiculous, too. I have fewer home canned things, those are in the freezer, but my stock pile of purchased ingredients is pretty impressive... embarrassingly so.

I spend half my time at the grocery store chanting "the apocalypse is NOT coming" so obviously I have a stockpiling problem too. We could live for months on pasta and dry beans at my house, we might get scurvy but we won't starve.

This post made my mouth water. As for stored food, that is a great thing. When I was coming up, we got through the winter on stored food. We also had potatoes and onion under the house in a cool, dry, dark space. I thought everyone stored food for the winter. You should be proud of yourself.

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